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Siddharth Bhutoria is pioneering a radical new vision for robotics—one where machines are no longer static, monolithic tools, but dynamic, self-sustaining systems capable of growth, repair, and adaptation. His core research lies at the intersection of **self-assembling modular robotics** and **bio-inspired robot metabolism**, fundamentally rethinking how robots are built and how they interact with their environment. In his landmark 2025 paper, *"Robot metabolism: Toward machines that can grow by consuming other machines"* (2 citations), Bhutoria introduces the concept of robots that can physically incorporate material from their surroundings to heal and develop—mimicking the core survival abilities of biological life. This work builds directly on his earlier 2024 paper, *"Robot Links: Towards Self-Assembling Truss Robots"* (2 citations), where he addressed the critical limitation of today’s closed-system robots by proposing modular, reconfigurable truss structures that can be discretized into replaceable units. By challenging the very definition of a robot’s lifecycle, Bhutoria is laying the groundwork for a future where machines can autonomously grow, recover from catastrophic damage, and sustain long-term operations in remote or hazardous environments.